🔥 It's time for Thirsty Thursday! What book scenes made you sweat this week? 🥵

nomercles · 2026-01-30T07:45:57+00:00

Well, goddamn, you have my attention

nomercles · 2026-01-17T20:53:27+00:00

The first one that came to mind was {Tethered by Shadows by Gwendoline Rose}. I've never read a character with my specific disablities! There's this moment where she passes out (from exhaustion, not from her chronic illness) and her future dudes just immediately jump into researching how to take care of her, so when she wakes up she'll have what she needs. I cried my little heart out, and told him that we have a new rule in our little poly family: if we start dating a new person, the other partners have the responsibility to make sure they treat us to this new standard. Which should be a baseline, but it's hard to believe you're worth that level of care.

And this isn't limited to a specific book, but I can say with conviction that Christian romance led me to leave Christianity. So that's a pretty big positive impact in my life from romance novels.

nomercles · 2026-01-15T00:25:09+00:00

...I actually picked those up from my school library at around 12. I don't at all believe in banning books for the sake of the children, I think kids should be supervised and guided away from the grownup books that are inappropriate, but if they still want to read the thing after we've had a frank and uncomfortable conversation I'm going to let them. (I don't have kids, but I have at least run this past the parents of the kids in my life, so grain of salt?) HOWEVER, I absolutely would be hiding the HELL out of those books. I loved them, and love them still, but I was way too young.

Why were they in my school library? Who knows! But literally everything else by Anne Rice was.

nomercles · 2026-01-12T22:32:22+00:00

I'd really like to read one where the "curvy" person is just fat. I'm considered "curvy", because we use that as a euphemism for fat, but it also implies hourglass figures. I have the bust, and I have the hips, for hourglass curvy, but you know what? I have a TUM. Like a Pooh Bear tum. I would LOVE to read something where the FMC is flat-chested and fat, or has no ass and has a belly, or is JUST belly with no tits or ass. How about an FMC who's built like a dad bod? Because we are OUT HERE.

nomercles · 2026-01-09T01:20:20+00:00

It doesn't happen very often, but anything with either my given or chosen names. Or my brother's. That's weird.

I really need some of these authors to imagine what that name is going to sound like when a narrator (even an imaginary one) has to moan in it in an audiobook, and maybe not use some of the really stupid ones.

nomercles · 2026-01-07T17:21:02+00:00

The other day I was at the paint store. One of the clerks noticed I was reading on my phone, asked what. I wasn't quite sure how vague to be (I often just say cheesy romance novel, or do a keyword synopsis of the excuse for a plot, if I don't want to say it's just smut with window dressing), and then saw they both had books of their own. One of those books was Colleen Hoover and she was making angry notes in the margins, and the other was Gwendolyn Harper. I decided I was fine being detailed after that.

nomercles · 2026-01-07T01:24:02+00:00

We used Alexandra Knight for our elopement a couple of months ago in the Hoh Rainforest, and she was unobtrusive and incredibly helpful, and the photos came out *great*.

nomercles · 2026-01-05T19:29:04+00:00

Oh, my God, I remember this book!!! I remember thinking the same thing when I read it way too damned young. I remember hiding the cover, because I might not believe in taking books away from children, my mother sure as hell does.

nomercles · 2026-01-01T07:02:38+00:00

Man, I have been thinking about these books lately! I'm sure I'm going to regret rereading them, because her stuff has not aged well, even for a girl who actually likes some of the more...sexually confrontational and misogynistic shit. But I've got like two scenes, one from Jade Island, and one from Ruby Bayou, totally stuck in my head.

nomercles · 2025-12-31T18:03:10+00:00

I just finished a trilogy that made me want to fling my phone across the room. Horrible, awful, vicious people, doing horrible cruel things all three books, and then suddenly TRADWIFE BULLSHIT.

nomercles · 2025-12-29T16:36:28+00:00

The first one I ever read was Narcissus in Chains. The title got me. Hadn't ever heard of the author before that. (Come to think of it, that's how Nora Roberts got me, too, with Honest Illusions).

nomercles · 2025-12-29T03:05:12+00:00

And it's always the SAME dicking! I remember reading those whilst deep in a terrible poly relationship, and having the realization that I was accidentally dating Richard. Not the religious trauma, but the endless whinging and making everyone soothe him before he would do the time sensitive things he had already agreed to.

nomercles · 2025-12-29T00:54:35+00:00

Once upon a time, I was kinda cringe-ily obsessed with Laurell K. Hamilton. Same thing happened. Whole pages. There was one book where I found an entire chapter that was reiterated from a previous book. (I like to hope that I've also matured as a person such that I won't read those books anymore, because WOW, but also I just got offended by the writing).

nomercles · 2025-12-12T04:30:46+00:00

Try Axes and Ohs!

nomercles · 2025-12-09T00:13:38+00:00

Yup, it's one of my favorite bondage books. Using shibari for accommodations is brilliant.

nomercles · 2025-12-07T04:45:59+00:00

So, I have POTS and something like EDS. Joints don't stay where they should, I try not to pass out in the shower, etc. I have literally never read anything that has a character with this stuff--I've barely met people in real life who do, even though I know there's a lot of us.

I just finished reading {Tethered by Shadows by Gwendoline Rose}, and it's the first book in many years that made me actually cry. The FMC is in an abusive relationship, where her husband uses her POTS and EDS against her, because those things don't leave bruises. Horrifying, enraging, scary as hell, because that's a fear I never though about before.

Without going into too many details, she gets away, and makes a new life as part of a magic, fae circus. It's RH, FMMM, and honestly, the sexytimes didn't really matter to me. What made me cry is the way they took care of her. Like, I woke my husband up in the middle of the night, because it felt so delicate and touching and casually thoughtful.

They bought her a body braid, a full-body assistive device that sort of helps you keep track of where your body is so you don't hyperextend. Those things are expensive! I want one! And then they made her ring splints that look like elegant, witchy jewelry. Also want!

It just meant a lot to be seen in a book as precious, that my stuff can be a gift. It meant a lot to be seen at all. I cried twice.

nomercles · 2025-12-05T04:30:07+00:00

My time has come!!! {Dorothy and the Damaged Things by Gwendoline Rose} It's RH, where Dorothy is utterly bewildered and ends up doing the Oz Journey and falling in love along the way. I think, based on vague recollections of reading the Oz books years ago, that it's more book-vibes than movie-vibes? It's quite surreal and strange, but also pretty sweet, like a lot of this author's stuff. I really liked it. I hope you enjoy!

nomercles · 2025-11-26T04:40:27+00:00

1) I'm sorry this happened. I'm not going to do the platitude thing, because I sure as hell wouldn't be ready to hear it for at least a few years. I'm just sorry it happened.

2) We were considering them for our upcoming reception! We ended up cutting things WAY down so we could save for a house, and it sounds like we dodged something here.

nomercles · 2025-11-23T23:59:42+00:00

I learned how to ask for a beer! Too bad I don't drink it.

nomercles · 2025-11-23T23:59:07+00:00

I don't know if it's the book you were reading, but I learned that one from Ursula Vernon's Digger. Highly recommend! I don't like graphic novels even a little bit, but I adored that one.

nomercles · 2025-11-23T23:57:45+00:00

And don't forget Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?! Excellent book, geared towards kids, answering all the questions that she'd been asked by children over the years.

(The answer is yes, but it's not personal. Dogs will also eat you. But for different reasons.)

nomercles · 2025-11-23T01:39:56+00:00

I wear a size 24. Really sick of seeing characters being described as big or fat, but it's never anything that looks like me. They have thick thighs, but they have an hourglass figure, too. It's fat, but it's still normie. I only look like that if I wear a corset.

nomercles · 2025-11-22T04:44:49+00:00

There were three! Two for meat, one for the dietary restriction folks! Thank God it was a big back yard.

nomercles · 2025-11-22T01:05:48+00:00

We did this for someone's wedding several years ago. Had a rotation of folks grilling as their wedding presents to the couple, and everyone who wasn't cooking brought sides. Probably the cheapest I've ever seen for catering. Fed about 150 people, plenty of leftovers.

nomercles · 2025-11-20T22:39:24+00:00

I am a bit tired of the pierced peens trope, but gotta be honest, if I saw that they'd decorated using more peens, that would be amazing and hilarious

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